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2021-10-22
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP);
CECP is excited to share, in the 2021 edition of Giving in Numbers, brandnew insights that cover a wide range of corporate social engagement topics. Giving in Numbers has long reported on most of these topics, but this year the report illuminates new details relevant to the global COVID19 pandemic and social justice efforts. These new insights were selected in accordance with inquiries from corporate leaders in CECP's coalition seeking to empower themselves by bringing new data into their strategic decision making.
2021-04-28
Funder and Evaluator Affinity Network;
This tool was developed by the authors of Evaluation is So White: Systemic Wrongs Reinforced by Common Practices and How to Start Righting Them for the 2021 GEO Learning Conference. It supports reflection and action relating to the strategies offered in the brief, which is intended as a starting point, as there is still much to learn and understand about the barriers evaluators of color face. Similarly, this tool is not comprehensive of all that is needed to ensure evaluators of color flourish. The overarching purpose is to spark conversation, engage in reflection, identify areas for learning, and ultimately to change behavior and practice.
2020-12-16
FWD.US;
New estimates from FWD.us show that immigrants represent a substantial, and thus critical, part of America's essential COVID-19 workforce combating the pandemic. Numbering nearly 23 million people, these medical, agricultural, food service, and other immigrant essential workers make up nearly 1 in 5 individuals in the total U.S. essential workforce.
2021-09-07
Opportunity America;
This report was funded by a consortium of leading New York City philanthropic donors eager to see CUNY focus more intentionally on preparing students for the workplace. Work began just before Chancellor Rodriguez was appointed, and when he took office, he strongly encouraged the project.The understanding between the chancellor and Opportunity America: that the organization would bring an independent perspective to its research and ultimately speak with an independent voice, but that the aim of the study was to make recommendations that are plausible for CUNY—some implementable in the short term, others goals for the future.
2021-09-01
Wilder Research Center;
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit Minnesota in March 2020 – marked by state-issued stay-at-home orders to protect public health – our communities felt immediate economic impacts. To learn more about some of these impacts on Minnesotans, Family Housing Fund and Wilder Research partnered to analyze unemployment and housing instability data.
2021-11-03
Human Resources Development Council of District IX (HRDC);
In recent years, housing has become a critical issue in Park County, but identifying exactly what is happening in the ever-changing housing market can be difficult. The Park County Housing Coalition -- a collaborative project of the Park County Community Foundation and Human Resource Development Council of District IX (HRDC) -- produced the 2021 Park County Housing Needs Assessment to compile the best information available about this community-wide challenge.
2021-10-28
Aspen Institute;
Despite widespread awareness of the lack of DEI in tech and public commitments from tech companies to do better, great uncertainty exists among leaders about how to make real progress.While there are deep pockets of DEI excellence within tech companies themselves, there has never been an attempt to connect this knowledge in a one-stop shop for people and leaders working across tech, nor has there been an effort to catalyze DEI outcomes through collaborative industry-wide action. DEI can't be solved by one company or leader; it requires long-term collective effort.The ACT Report calls for a new paradigm in DEI that is holistic, collective, and long-term. Tech's current approach is often dispersed, individual, and short-term. Despite important progress in DEI, tech companies are too often reduced to poaching each other's talent from underrepresented groups. The paradigm shift described in the ACT Report fundamentally requires a shift in thought and behavior. It is based on values, and provides a blueprint to indivisibly link DEI strategy and business strategy. Companies must bring a business approach to inclusion, and an inclusive approach to business. In other words, DEI and business strategies can no longer be separate. The ACT Report explains what this means in practice.Making the tech industry more inclusive requires a systemic response to a systemic problem. The foundational system that impacts employment opportunity is education. The tech industry, like other industries, must deliver early intervention measures at scale to drive equity from cradle to career. That means tackling educational inequity generally, and increasing access to computer science education specifically.
2021-05-28
National Immigration Forum;
As the U.S. population ages, home health care workers are projected to be the third fastest-growing occupation. Immigrants accounted for 25% of personal care aides and 38% of home health aides. They have proven to be essential but often overlooked health care workers.The focus of this paper is to provide background on the crisis, highlight the home health care industry, and offer some recommendations on how to mitigate against labor shortages and secure the needed home health care services for the aging U.S. population.
2021-08-03
The Wallace Foundation;
In 2016, The Wallace Foundation launched the University Principal Preparation Initiative to help seven universities strengthen principal preparation and to help each state develop policies to improve principal effectiveness statewide. This chart summarizes which of seven policy levers were more often in place.
2021-11-08
American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
How should one measure the value of a college degree? In recent years, policy-makers have focused their attention on earnings as the primary measure of the value of a degree, often using that metric to single out humanities degrees as less valuable than others. But there are other—less tangible—measures of value, such as satisfaction with one's work and life more generally, that might also be applied to these discussions.Without taking a position on which metrics are best, this report, based largely on original research commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Indicators, examines a variety of outcome measures, including graduates' satisfaction with their jobs, their finances, and their lives generally. The evidence shows that humanities graduates tend to earn less and have slightly higher levels of unemployment than business majors and graduates from some STEM fields. With respect to perceived well-being, however, humanities majors are similar to graduates from almost every other field. The data cannot explain the seeming disparity between the objective and subjective measures, but they provide a starting point for a more nuanced discussion about the relationship among fields of undergraduate study, employment, and quality of life. And for faculty, the report also points to a potential area of concern regarding the way they communicate to students about the skills developed in the course of an education in the field, as a substantial share of humanities graduates perceive little or no relationship between their job and their degree. The data were all gathered prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but past experience tracking this sort of data for the humanities—particularly through the Great Recession—gives us little reason to expect a significant shift in values over the medium term.
2021-11-30
Heartland Alliance;
Employment success and housing stability go hand in hand. Although the public workforce and homeless service systems both serve homeless and unstably housed jobseekers, these systems work in silos in many communities. Collaboration is critical for these two systems to achieve their interrelated goals.One promising systems collaboration strategy is cross-system data sharing. This resource provides an overview of data sharing, explains how it can be used to better understand and meet the needs of workforce and homeless service populations in your community, and lifts up how Chicago and Detroit have successfully operationalized this strategy.
2021-11-30
Heartland Alliance;
These comments were provided in response to the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness' request for feedback on the revised Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. In crafting our response, staff from Heartland Alliance's Impact Division gathered input from 17 staff members across the Alliance's companies, including staff with lived experience of homelessness, staff working directly with adults and youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness, and staff working on policy and systems-level solutions to prevent and end homelessness.
